Travel trends: 2025
Annual Travel trends: 2025 presents estimates for overseas travel and tourism — visits, spending, nights and purpose of visit — as official statistics currently in development.
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Road conditions in England to March 2026
Statistics on road condition for local authority and National Highways-managed roads in England, covering performance and surface condition to March 2026 to inform maintenance and investment decisions.
Improving our travel and tourism statistics: October 2026 update
ONS describes progress towards planned improvements to travel and tourism statistics, listing workstreams and official statistics in development to enhance estimates of visits, spending and related measures.
Road condition statistics: data tables (RDC)
Data tables on road condition and maintenance for local authorities and National Highways, covering metrics such as carriageway condition, repair activity and expenditure by road class and authority.
Delay compensation claims: 1 April 2026 to 25 July 2026 (Periods 1 to 4)
Publishes data for 1 April–25 July 2026 (periods 1–4) on passenger delay compensation claims and how efficiently train operating companies processed payments and refunds.
Passenger rail service complaints (Tables 4160 and 4163 only): April 2025 to March 2026
Annual statistics (tables 4160 and 4163) on passenger complaints to train operating companies for April 2025–March 2026, reporting complaint volumes and reasons for complaints.
UK Ship Register Statistics: August 2026
Monthly release reporting ships joining and leaving the UK Ship Register, covering January 2015 to August 2026 and providing the latest counts and movements on the register for that period.
DVA Monthly Tests Conducted Statistics: September 2026
Monthly statistics on vehicle, driver and theory tests conducted by Northern Ireland’s Driver & Vehicle Agency for September 2026 have been published, covering volumes and trends in test activity.
UK international sea passengers: August 2026
Monthly statistics on UK international and domestic sea passenger numbers for August 2026, detailing arrivals and departures across ports and trends in ferry and cruise traffic.
Daily domestic transport use by mode user engagement 2026
Information about a user engagement exercise intended to improve the Department for Transport’s daily domestic transport use by mode publication for Great Britain, describing how users were consulted and planned updates to the statistics product.
Road traffic estimates in Great Britain: 2025
Department for Transport released road traffic estimates for Great Britain for 2025, providing breakdowns of traffic volumes by vehicle and road type for the year.
Disabled Persons Railcards (DPRC) and assisted journeys: 1 April 2026 to 25 July 2026 (Periods 1 to 4)
Statistics on Disabled Persons Railcards in circulation and the number of assisted-journey bookings by rail passengers covering 1 April to 25 July 2026 (Periods 1–4), showing take-up and use of assistance services.
Building materials and components statistics: September 2026
Monthly statistics and analysis for September 2026 cover building materials and components, tracking production, deliveries and price movements to inform understanding of construction sector supply and cost pressures.
Quarterly traffic estimates (TRA25)
Provides provisional quarterly road-traffic estimates (TRA25) by vehicle type and road class, offering the latest movements in traffic volumes used to monitor travel trends and support transport planning and policy.
Provisional road traffic estimates, Great Britain: July 2025 to June 2026
Provisional road traffic estimates for Great Britain for year ending June 2026, providing vehicle‑type and road‑class breakdowns of traffic volumes and short‑term trends.
Landings Enriched Approach for Positional FISHeries data (LEAPFISH) 2024
LEAPFISH 2024 is an Official Statistics in Development release providing landings data linked to positional (vessel) fisheries information, improving spatial detail on where fish were landed to support management, compliance and analysis of fishing activity.
Passenger rail usage: April to June 2026
Quarterly data on passenger rail use in Great Britain for April–June 2026, reporting journey volumes, passenger kilometres and revenue on the mainline network to track recovery and demand patterns.
Travel time measures for the Strategic Road Network, England and local ‘A’ roads, Great Britain: July 2025 to June 2026
Presents congestion and travel-time measures for England’s Strategic Road Network and locally managed A roads across Great Britain, reporting on performance for the year ending June 2026 (July 2025–June 2026).
Road traffic estimates (TRA)
The Department for Transport’s Road Traffic Estimates (TRA) dataset provides ongoing data on road traffic by road and vehicle type for Great Britain, used for planning and monitoring transport trends.
Linking STATS19 fatalities and ONS death registration data
Summarises initial work linking STATS19 fatality records from reported road collisions with Office for National Statistics death registrations, describing linkage approach and potential to improve accuracy of reported road fatality counts.
Average speed, delay and reliability of travel times (CGN)
National data on average speed, delay and reliability of travel times on the Strategic Road Network and local 'A' roads, covering measured journey speeds, minutes of delay and reliability metrics for road users.
Road safety statistics: data tables
Detailed Great Britain statistics and data tables on reported personal injury road collisions, with breakdowns by vehicles and casualties involved to support analysis of road safety trends and risk factors.
Reported road casualties Great Britain, additional analysis: 2025
Presents additional analysis and methodological development on personal injury collisions and casualty statistics on Great Britain’s public roads for 2025, supplementing headline reported road casualty figures.
Monthly Occupancy Statistics, August 2026
Monthly occupancy statistics for August 2026 reporting hotel occupancy via an Accredited Official Statistics survey, alongside a separate Official Statistics report on Small Service Accommodation occupancy for the same month.
Light rail and tram statistics, England: year ending March 2026
Annual statistics to March 2026 on England’s light rail and tram systems, covering passenger journeys, vehicle miles, infrastructure and user profiles to inform transport planning and investment decisions.
Reported road casualties Great Britain: involving driving for work
Provides estimates of collisions in Great Britain involving at least one driver on a work-related journey, using STATS19 journey-purpose coding or vehicle-type assumptions to identify incidents where driving was for work.
Matching STATS19 collision data to a road network: feasibility
Assessment of the feasibility of matching STATS19 collision records to a road network, aiming to improve validation and utility of official road casualty statistics by testing methods for attributing collisions to specific road segments.
Light rail and tram statistics (LRT)
Statistics on light rail and tram systems in England include network, usage and operational data, and also report on Glasgow Underground and Edinburgh Tram systems to support transport planning and monitoring.
Transport Statistics Geography Portal: September 2026
Quarterly update to the Transport Statistics Geography Portal provides geographically mapped official transport statistics to September 2026, enabling local analysis of published Department for Transport indicators.
Reported road casualties Great Britain: older and younger driver factsheets
Overview factsheets on casualties in collisions involving older drivers (70+) and younger drivers (17–24), summarising casualty numbers, trends and differences by age group for Great Britain.